This project explores the experiences of adverse school experiences among young adults who are underemployed and residing in a rural region of Southwest Saskatchewan. Adverse school experiences consist of distressing or disturbing experiences occurring within the context of schools or learning activities and can include academic failure, discrimination, or negative interactions with peers or teachers […]

With financial assistance from MITACS and the Loon Foundation, two students from the Capilano University Motion Picture Arts Program (MOPA) will create a documentary film under the supervision of the Program Instructor Mary M. Frymire and the Foundation’s Executive Director, Dr Michael Jackson. The film will follow the foundations remarkably successful efforts over the past […]

Les plasmas dans les milieux liquides est un projet de recherche très original, en termes d’applications dans différents domaines et en termes de physique fondamentale. Mon projet consiste à étudier l’influence de l’intensité et l’orientation du champ magnétique par rapport à la direction des électrodes sur le comportement de décharges sparks. J’effectuerai une étude de […]

I am interested in understanding plant diversity. The internship project focuses on the evolution of a group of mosses distributed in arctic, subarctic and alpine habitats. The moss genus Racomitrium, specifically the sect. Racomitrium, has complex phylogenetic relationships that make it difficult to understand its evolutionary relationships. Racomitrium lanuginosum is a key plant in Northern […]

The Niagara Escarpment is a dominant landform in southern Ontario and provides the region with exceptional sites of natural beauty including numerous waterfalls and exposed rocky cliffs. However, the escarpment is also a geomorphic feature formed by ongoing erosion processes that create many challenges for those living near or enjoying its natural beauty. Unfortunately, there […]

Cette recherche vise à identifier les motivations du partage de fausses nouvelles sur Facebook et les problèmes causés par les fausses nouvelles dans le contexte du Covid-19. Pour atteindre cet objectif, la recherche portera sur cinq construits : l’implication personnelle, l’intention de faire confiance, l’intention de partager, les motivations intrinsèques et extrinsèques. Nous utiliserons l’enquête […]

Mon projet de thèse vise à analyser la façon dont les esclaves ont adopté la religion catholique et l’ont transformée avec des apports de croyances ancestrales d’origine africaine, participant ainsi à la formation d’une nouvelle culture. Je m’intéresse donc au vécu religieux des esclaves des Petites Antilles françaises. Ma recherche dans les archives romaines vise […]

This project is intended to develop our online learning products, the marketing of those products, and the marketing and selling of them via our website and other marketing channels. We would like to engage an MTEI graduate intern to assist with the planning and implementation of digitizing a few of our products. From there we […]

The proposed project will extend the AI4Buzz (http://ai4buzz.ca/) platform in three ways: social-network analysis, real-rime streaming data analysis, and statistical hypothesis exploration and testing. The platform has been developed in collaboration with CECN through a previous MITACS grant, entitled “A Toolkit For Analyzing Online Conversations for Solutions Based Policy Development” led by Dr. Lefsrud.

This Mitacs project will focus on mapping the landscape of social innovation labs in Canada, specifically: understanding how it has changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; the methodologies and approaches applied by social labs across the country in addressing complex problems; and importantly, the impact these processes have on the people and communities […]

Le projet de stage porte sur l’usage de la blockchain dans l’administration et la gouvernance scolaires. S’inscrivant dans un projet de recherche doctoral, il ambitionne d’y contribuer à l’analyse de cet usage ainsi que les changements que la blockchain – ou chaine de blocs – apportent ou apporteraient à la gestion et à la prise […]

Climate-focused livelihood adaptation driven by donor-funded technocratic development projects has emerged as an instrumental strategy for addressing vulnerabilities of communities in the Global South. However, critical calls are rising for a more nuanced understanding of climate victims’ local realities (which often contrast significantly from national political agendas and climate crisis narratives), socio-spatial dynamics of vulnerability […]